PokeNirvash

People like to express their fetishes through their artwork. There's nothing wrong with that, even if it makes you want to take a cold shower and forget you ever looked at it.

Yeah, Jman hates One Piece and exaggerates its not-exactly-positive reception in the States more often than not.

He goes back and forth.

Yeah, well my Pelswick example was much more subtle.

Alright, I'm back, let's do this. Episode 28: Total Angel Ayase-tan Can't Descend Upon My Place While I Live Alone The penultimate episode of season 2's televisables begins with the housewarming party Manami planned to throw for Kyosuke and his apartment last episode. Before the party actually starts, though, first comes the prepwork: Manami and Kuroneko preparing the hors d'oeuvres, Saori in her non-otaku getup getting permission from the landlord to use the apartment complex's front yard, and Kirino, unpleased to see Manami there, agreeing to a truce with her until they have the time to talk things over and work past their differences. Or, as Ayase claims, just fight it out like animals. Oh, and Kanako shows up with another lunch for Kyosuke, leading to yet another misunderstanding that gets him a kick to the face from Ayase. Kirino's mad about the implied and falsified relationship between those two too, but not as much. After all that's said and done, the party begins and good times are had. At least, until the exact point where I assume most people realized this series wasn't going to end well. By which I mean, Kanako confronting Kyosuke about eating the food the others made and not the boxed lunch she made for him with her only slightly improved cooking skills. Even though she outright states that his eating all the food but hers is what's bugging her, the fact that she words her concern as "eating food from women other than me" is what makes this whole incident problematic, as it implies that she's starting to have feelings for him that weren't at all implied before. I'll admit, I was a little taken aback by the suddenness of it too, but really, Kanako's sudden attraction to Kyosuke doesn't matter. What matters is the feuding that results from the girls over who's gonna feed Kyosuke while he's living the apartment life. Kanako wants to prove her improving cooking skills to Kyosuke with a daily boxed lunch, Kuroneko claims she should do it instead as his once-girlfriend, Manami uses Kuroneko's distance from Kyosuke's place and Kanako's lacking skills under her tutelage (yeah, Manami is Kanako's cooking instructor; blame Ayase) to justify why she should be the one to do it, and Saori butts in to proclaim that she's the most qualified, all while Kyosuke is trying to calm everyone down. Tired of the harem B.S. going on within earshot, Kirino tells everyone to shut up and leave Kyosuke alone, as there'll be no way he can study for his mock exam with them practically fighting over who gets his dick to take care of him during his study time. But not only does Kirino save Kyosuke the trouble of being caught up in an unreasonable love dodecahedron, but she also solves the problem once and for all by deciding that Ayase should be the one to take care of him. She's diligent, she's a good cook, she's already got a career in mind so she won't have to worry about that either, and she hates Kyosuke's guts so there's no way she'll distract him with any coming-on moves. It's a perfect match! After all, sister knows best, right? That said, Ayase begins taking care of Kyosuke's place while he takes the time to study, and things go over very well for him! Minus the occasional threat, lecture, and that one time it was pouring rain and Ayase's clothes got soaked so she had to take a shower, making Kyosuke distracted enough to take a peek at her through the bathroom door just because. But overall, Ayase's presence was a positive influence on Kyosuke. Once his studies were finished, he took the mock exam and in spite of difficulties on the English portion, he got an A, so he gets to move back into the house, plus the regaining of his mother's trust and the bonus of having Kirino perform one request of his choosing. That, I assume, will be saved for next episode. And as it turns out - if your mind is clear enough to consider it, at least - Ayase's daily presence around Kyosuke had a positive effect on her as well. The morning of his moving out of the apartment procured for him, Ayase drops by to congratulate him on his A grade and, after taking offense at him claiming that she was partly responsible for it as opposed to him being responsible for it all his own, she winds up confessing her love to him. It may seem as out of nowhere to you as Kanako's jealous implication did it at first, sure, but when you think about it, visiting the house of the one person you can't stand but still occasionally come to for advice daily for almost a whole month would lead one to lighten up towards that person. As told by the montage of Ayase's taking care of Kyosuke, she laid witness to both his good qualities and his bad, and even confessed to him that she knew all along that he lied about being a sister lover way back in episode 5 and knew deep down that it was to reconcile her friendship with Kirino. The idea of him doing lewd things with Kirino and all the sexual harassment that followed angered her for real, sure, but she still appreciated all that he did to help her out, even when it was detrimental to his image in her eyes. It just took her until this period of time in her life to realize that she did. And that implication is enough to justify her declaration that many of the things that make Kyosuke who he is, good and bad, are what made her fall in love with him so hard at so late in the game. Not to mention that if she married him, Kirino could become her sister by proxy, which is good by her anytime. :-D So naturally, she's devastated and in denial when Kyosuke reveals that his heart already belongs to someone else and because of that, he can't be her boyfriend like she supposedly wants. While she takes it bad and even non-comedically pounds her hands against his chest in frustration, she ultimately accepts it and parts ways with Kyosuke (for the time being) after promising him one last "usual parting". Kyosuke, assuming it'll be some form of violence, prepares to take whatever she can dish out at him. But much to his surprise, he gets a true shocker: a kiss to the cheek and an affectionate "I hate you". I'll admit, that's as good a way to wrap up their relationship as any. Speaking of their relationship, I think this episode might've gotten me over the negative tension between those two. While Ayase's hostility towards Kyosuke is anger-inducing in the heat of things, in hindsight you have to appreciate the fact that Kyosuke comes out no worse for wear as a result of her violence. Hell, even when she kicked him for supposedly being intimate with Kanako earlier in the episode, by the time the housewarming party started right after, he was back to normal; a sign that he's gotten used to Ayase's violence just enough for it to leave him for the most part unharmed and, after the initial shock, unfazed. Plus episode 2 of season 2 was one of the best episodes, mostly because of that ending but partly because of the interactions between those two being the best of that kind thus far. So yeah, this episode really wasn't that heinous, once you think about it. Kanako could've worded her problems better, but when it comes down to it, there really wasn't much of anything that, without a little brainpower, is worthy of hate unless you're a sucker for realism. If you are such a type, then why are you even watching anime? Then again, I've had issue with the closer-to-real-life-than-others atmosphere of Oreimo occasionally going out of that logical comfort zone (DAT LAPTOP INCIDENT), so I'll give you this one in turn. 8.5/10. RATED: TV-14D WHY? Suggestive dialogue, as per usual. A good chunk of it was actually more PG-level (for season 2, anyways) than it was 14, like Ayase mentioning Kyosuke having sexually harassed her in the past twice and calling him a bevy of unflattering names like "lech", "pervert", and "sister lover", and Kanako assuming that Kyosuke was throwing "some kind of pervy party" based on all the girls who showed up for his housewarming celebration. But some did reach 14-level, like the not-exactly-PG "little girl lover" said by Ayase twice, both to Kyosuke and one of those times in reaction to Kanako joking that she and Kyosuke were lovers. But the big one was another lolicon reference, where Ayase assumed that Kyosuke was taking advantage of her above-mentioned shower by messing around with a young girl, in this case Kuroneko's little sister Hinata, who in actuality came over to check up on Kyosuke in Kuroneko's place. There were also some scantily-clad figurines in a display cabinet in Kyosuke's apartment that were covered enough to not be too explicit, but that's of no huge matter. SCREENCAPS: For act 1, no attractive Saori for you, and for act 2, what Kyosuke and Ayase as husband and wife would look like.

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Well, the positive thing we can get from this, though, is that the ratings didn't dip down into "Chiller Ani-Wednesdays" levels of fail.

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So does that mean Gohan's the Meg?

Moose does make a decent point, y'know.

March Comes In Like a Lion 7

March Comes In Like a Lion #7 - Important Things. Important Matters. / Teach Me How to Play Shogi Additionally, I would also like to mention that I will be adding another series to cover in this thread starting this Saturday at the earliest. I can't say what it is yet - hell, I don't even know for sure what it's going to be - but I'm positive it'll be fun fun fun. ;D [til her daddy takes the t-bird away]

I don't think he hates JoJo now, just the fact that it's bombing on Toonami. OPM is obviously one of his faves, for sure.

IIRC, it had something to do with a party game.

Samurai Jack Season 5, so Ranlsa, wherever she may be, can finally shut the hell up about it.

I bet "realism" was just an excuse for them not to spend thousands of dollars on neon teal hair dye.

While I can see why the microseries was better to some, I actually found it inferior to the full TV version. It was probably because the latter had slick CGI animation and more NINJA TUNE music, coupled with reasons relating to my multiversal headcanon of fictional anime ideas, but it was more likely the stronger orientation towards the kid audience, the occasional instance of sped-up animation, the utter lack of personality for Team Sledgemamma, and with the former that made me think that way.

If you weren't dead to me before, you're dead to me now.

[facepalm] I knew it, you're a fucking lost cause. :blank:

Goddammit Mochi, Trump isn't gonna go all Hitler-Stalin on anybody. What makes you think his wanting to limit the amount of illegal Mexicans and terrorism-worshipping Muslims coming into the country has anything to do with wanting to eradicate the blacks and the gays?

I was referring more to the spelling, not the fact that Bulma's family are all named after undergarments.

I always read it as "Panti". Also you spelled underpants wrong. [it's like their parents wanted them to be strippers]

Fair enough. Kuromukuro 6